A theory about two types of software engineers: - Type 1 ignores people and focuses on technical solutions. - Type 2 acknowledges the role of people in engineering and embraces the challenge of working with them. Type 2 engineers understand that the messy aspects of human involvement lead to real wo.. read more  

GitHub upgrades Rails and Ruby weekly, benefiting from the latest improvements and security fixes. Frequent upgrades improve tool performance, simplify bug fixes, and deepen developer expertise. GitHub encourages other companies to invest in their frameworks for resilience and stability... read more  

Functional programming is a useful concept that can lead to building robust software. Python's flexible syntax can also be used to implement it efficiently. Trick: instead of using type annotation, use abstract base class to define a type interface that allows for consistent use of monoids, helping .. read more  

This book, available for free, heavily leans on examples to present features of regular expressions one by one... read more  

A deep dive into PostgreSQL indexes.. read more  

Bytewax is a library aiming to empower individual developers and data scientists to have maximum impact. It combines Python's data capabilities with Rust's performance and can be easily installed using `pip`. Bytewax utilizes Timely Dataflow, a distributed compute engine, and runs on Kubernetes, int.. read more  

A fast, two-member team at Microsoft's request has put together significant performance improvements for CPython. They describe a specialized adaptive interpreter and plan for future PEPs, all of which was covered at PyCon. The interpreter will specialize in common cases, and while it won't always b.. read more  

Learn how to use Python's 'super' built-in effectively and write super concise code by giving a clear mental model of how it works with concrete advice using class building as an example in this article... read more  

How to sort a Django queryset based on a custom sequence attribute? This article explains how to sort a table based on a list object in ascending or descending order. Django's search expression can also sort by conditional logic to return different expression values based on a criterion... read more  

Blog post explores two powerful tools in Django that optimize query performance: (1) sql join operation for relationship model to retrieve related object in a single query, (2) initial QuerySet for reverse relationship to reduce the number of separate queries required to fetch complex objects... read more